User Normal discrepancy

[Matt Lind <speye_21(at)hotmail.com>]

Got a slight problem here:
 
I've created a small suite of tools for doing basic things with 'user normal' properties on polygon meshes since the tools don't exist in the regular XSI UI.  One of my tools is a basic normal transfer tool which copies normals from one object to another.  The problem I'm encountering is that when I query a picked object during the copy operation, XSI doesn't return the proper normal information if the picked object has a user normal property - XSI returns the object's original geometry normals and ignores the normals in the user normal property.  doesnt' seem to matter which collections or arrays I query (Nodes, Facets, NodesArray, SamplesArray, GetGeometry2(), ...) the result is always the same.  It seems I have to acquire each individual user normal property and figure out the composite result myself.
 
Ideally I want XSI to return the normals on the picked object as I see them applied in the viewports.  Anybody encounter this or have any ideas to workaround?
 
 
Thanks,
 
Matt

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Matt Lind
Animator / Technical Director
SOFTIMAGE certified instructor:
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Matt.Lind(at)Mantom(dot)net

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